Wilderness Areas of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (Generated in 1999 for HR 3035-IH)
National Park Service, Intermountain GIS Program Office. 2002. Wilderness Areas of Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah (Generated in 1999 for HR 3035-IH). National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
This shapefile contains boundaries for Recommended Wilderness and Non-Wilderness in Bryce Canyon National Park (BRCA), Utah. This dataset is derived from the NPS Official Wilderness Recommendation which was transmitted from the President to Congress on 5/11/1978, but never enacted. The Wilderness Recommendation is based on careful studies of roadless areas, public hearings, and written responses. This dataset has been revised from the official map to adjust buffers along roads and utilities, account for changes to the boundary and land status, and reflect more accurate measurement available through new GIS technology. This dataset identifies 24,199 acres within BRCA as Recommended Wilderness (20,810 acres in the original 1977 document). The remaining 11,766 acres of the park were determined to be not suitable for wilderness designation at this time. The difference in acreage calculations is due to the increased accuracy and associated error of recreating an analog dataset into a digital form using GIS technology.
- Type
- Geospatial Dataset
- Authors
- National Park Service, Intermountain GIS Program Office
- Date of Issue
- 2002
- Publisher
- National Park Service Intermountain Region GIS Support Office
- Units
- BRCA
- Keywords
- BRCA, Bryce Canyon National Park, Environment, Wilderness